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Retired teacher Fiona Cargill, 60, is certain it was written by one of her classes at Chapelpark Primary School in Forfar.

She said: “It’s amazing. I think it is one class in particular because one of the children was related to a trawlerman in Arbroath who would take the bottle in their boat and throw it a bit further out so it was less likely to wash back ashore.”

Retired teacher Fiona Cargill, 60, from Newtyle, Angus, is certain that the letter was written by pupils in one of her classes in the 1980s. (Image: SWNS.com)